1: Preface 2: Introduction and overviews 3: Introduction: the role of agricultural technologies in tropical deforestation 4: Technological change and deforestation: a theoretical overview 5: Developed countries 6: The transition from deforestation to reforestation in Europe 7: Did a Green Revolution restore the forests of the American South? 8: Latin America 9: A general equilibrium analysis of technology, migration, and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon 10: Will intensifying pasture management in Latin America protect forests - or is it the other way around? 11: Intensified small-scale livestock systems in the western Brazilian Amazon 12: Technological change vs. economic policy as tools to control deforestation: the Atlantic zone of Costa Rica 13: Land use, agricultural technology, and deforestation among settlers in the Ecuadorian Amazon 14: Ecuador goes bananas: incremental technological change and forest loss 15: Soybean technology and the loss of natural vegetation in Brazil and Bolivia 16: Kudzu improved fallows in the Peruvian Amazon 17: Africa 18: Ambiguous effects of policy reforms on sustainable agricultural intensification in Africa 19: A century of technological change and deforestation in the miombo woodlands of northern Zambia 20: Livestock disease control and the changing landscapes of southwest Ethiopia 21: Tree-crops as deforestation and reforestation agents: The case of cocoa in Cote d'Ivoire and Sulawesi 22: Asia 23: Agriculture and deforestation in tropical Asia: an analytical framework 24: Deforestation, irrigation, employment, and cautious optimism in southern Palawan, the Philippines 24: Agricultural development policies and land expansion in a southern Philippine watershed 26: The impact of rubber on the forest landscape in Borneo 27: Summaries 28: Agricultural technology and forests: a recap 29: Policy implications 30: Index
